Hacker News: bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bongodongobobHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:40:56 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"]]>[flagged]

]]>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:27:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483401bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483401https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483401<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"]]>This is a good take if you know nothing about the history of the US meddling with other countries. For those who do have some knowledge here, this is fucking just stupid and naive.

]]>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:22:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46481726bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46481726https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46481726<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"]]>Trump literally said we want their oil. We are there to install US oil companies and a US friendly government.

]]>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:04:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478945bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478945https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478945<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]"]]>Yeah, I know. And I disagree with you. Tobacco companies should be allowed to advertise. Cocaine shouldn't put you in jail.

]]>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:41:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451102bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451102https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451102<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]"]]>Both of these things are products people can either choose to consume or not.

]]>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:40:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451095bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451095https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451095<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]"]]>Yeah, that's crazy. Just because it's wrapped in some kind of religious moral code doesn't make it ok.

]]>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:07:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447778bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447778https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447778<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]"]]>Ok let's make soda and McDonalds illegal then.

]]>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:56:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447686bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447686https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447686<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]"]]>Nope. I live in the Midwest and have had more than a handful of friends die from drugs and alcohol. I don't think the rest of the population should have their freedoms taken away because of it. Bad things happen and blaming a drug/substance/tech for it is lazy.

]]>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:27:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447415bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447415https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447415<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]"]]>The guy was clearly insane. Anyone who stabs themselves to death has very serious mental issues. Did ChatGPT exacerbate that? Maybe. Do I think we should do anything about it because the 1 in 100,000,000 crazy person might have negative effects? Absolutely not. Put your energy into backing mental healthcare/national helathcare rather than blaming tech for someone with profound mental health issues going off the rails.

Edit: Good grief. This isn't even a remotely uncommon opinion. Wanting to outlaw things because some people can't handle their shit is as old as society.

]]>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:05:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447179bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447179https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447179<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections"]]>The average person can barely read and knows nothing about world history and politics. No thanks.

]]>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:42:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437122bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437122https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437122<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line"]]>I could definitely see it helping in this space though. I was a project manager for a telco for a bit and there's lots of data in different formats and systems that even today's AI would be great at splicing it all together for one coherent picture.

]]>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:24:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417743bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417743https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417743<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line"]]>You have to deal with directly affecting real estate owners, potentially 100s of thousands of different ones in NYC. Not to mention 100s of years of underground infra and all the different companies that own that stuff without cutting service to anyone. It's insanely difficult and I'm not sure I understand why you think it wouldn't be.

]]>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 02:33:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46416861bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46416861https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46416861<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis"]]>I live near the Great Lakes. Data center proposals are popping up and people think they are going to drain lake michigan. They think they will consume more power than the entire state consumes right now. Idiot yokels are chasing away what could be an absolute boon for our economy. But they'd rather have papermills and make cardboard boxes.

]]>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:08:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415441bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415441https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415441<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis"]]>Nah, it's fueled by huge misinformation campaigns. It's going to kill art, put us all out of the job, uses 1.5 million gallons per query, pollutes water, will kill the electric grid, etc. These seem to be the most popular uninformed lines of thinking.

]]>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:36:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414240bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414240https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414240<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis"]]>It makes all electronics more expensive. This makes every service more expensive as well.

]]>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:34:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414218bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414218https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414218<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"]]>Not for me.

]]>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:19:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395778bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395778https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395778<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers"]]>I've never in my life (25 years in the business) seen a system that was so utilized things needed to be cut. Every single cluster/DC I've worked with has been at 50-85% utilization tops. I mean, they might hit 100% during a report generation period or something, but the 95% avg I've seen has never exceeded maybe 80%.

]]>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 05:30:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389458bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389458https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389458<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers"]]>5 years is the lifecycle. You're not going to get rid of a 4 year old server because you're using less cycles that you thought you would. You already bought it. You find something else for it to do or you have a little extra redundancy. If I increase the mpg of my semi fleet, that doesn't mean I can sell some of my semis off just because the cost per trip goes down.

]]>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 01:15:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371398bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371398https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371398<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers"]]>So you prematurely dump hardware you already own when you see CPU usage go down? I don't think so.

]]>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 01:13:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371377bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371377https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371377<![CDATA[New comment by bongodongobob in "Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers"]]>That's not how it works though. Budgets are annual. A 1% savings of cpu cycles doesn't show up anywhere, it's a rounding error. They don't have a guy that pulls the servers and sells them ahead of the projection. You bought them for 5 years and they're staying. 5 years from now, that 1% got eaten up by other shit.

]]>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:50:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369315bongodongobobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369315https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369315